Mai Tai P.A.
Alvarado Street Brewery in Monterey, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.51
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Winner of FIVE Great American Beer Festival medals, three of them gold, including our 2023 award for American Strong Pale Ale! Plus a 2024 World Beer Cup bronze medal for American-Style Strong Pale Ale! Our drier, decidedly “tropical” IPA that’s light on bitterness, but heavy on hop aroma, courtesy of 100% Mosaic hops. One whiff and you get super intense notes of passion fruit, mango, and lychee. Grain bill of just American two-row malt and a clean fermentation keep it simple and allow these hops to shine.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6
Draught at the brewery, small creamy head, hazy light golden orange color, aroma of onion and passion fruit with some flowers, flavors of onion and flowers, empathic grapefruit peel bitterness. Very nice and enjoyable, more citrusy and oniony then tropical.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2019
at 12:37
8/10
Dank and juicy, with lots of tropical fruit notes. Not bad! 3.9
Tried
from Can
on 21 May 2019
at 23:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can @ Himmeriget. Poured golden in color. Tropical and herbal hops, juicy and fruity with light bitterness. Dry. Light spicyness later on.
Tried
from Can
on 17 May 2019
at 09:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
From tap at MBCC 18. Almost clear golden color with white head. Hoppy and malty aroma, tropical fruits, citrusy too, grass, spicy, pine. Sweet and bitter taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 May 2019
at 15:12
8/10
EB. Nicely refreshing. Dry and fruity.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Mar 2019
at 17:10
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ MBCC'18 [ Yellow Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. [ As Alvarado Street Mai Tai P.A. ].Light unclear medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, spicy hops, fruity hops - mango - passion fruit - lychee, light pine. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, hops, fruity hops, tropical fruit - mango - passion fruit - lychee, citrus, spicy hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180511] 7-3-7-4-15
Tried
on 08 Feb 2019
at 15:22
8/10
Pretty tropical hoppiness. Easy drinking and tropicalness
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Feb 2019
at 21:49
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can, 6.5%. Clear golden with medium white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hops, grapefruit and pine. Flavour is malt, fruit, hops, grapefruit, pine, medium sweet and medium bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2018
at 18:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
(473ml can from Mikkeller and Friends Bottleshop, canned Oct 4) 1mo @ drinking. Pours clear gold with an average white head and some lace. Aroma is heavy in very floral tropical fruit - passionfruit, lychee, papaya, guava - accompanied by some berries, citrus peel, light weed and biscuit. Flavour is clean and crisp, notes of berries, passionfruit, fruit peels, grapefruit rind, grass, light dank resin, becoming more floral towards the finish. Lightly sweet at best, finishing bone dry with fairly light bitterness and a floral aftertaste. Light to medium bodied, average carbonation. Solid, I remember this as better at MBCC but it's a pretty well-balanced if not mouth-bursting modern West Coast joint.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Nov 2018
at 20:27
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Tap @ MBCT Red Session. Clear golden pour with some little white foam. Hoppy nose, pine needles and light resiny tingle. Hop marmalade. Taste is super clean, light fruity malt base, nice aromatics all around, resins and some hops. Taste is super balanced feels kind of dry and medium hops. Near perfect balance, super fresh and smashable. This is definitely a full pint stuff that is pretty amazing.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Sep 2018
at 09:48